Jack Houston

Some public funds from a $300,000 reform program designed to turn out the vote for Chicago school council elections were used to pay suspected ghost canvassers, while time sheets of...

Take the ''worst'' school system in the nation and hand over its 540 schools to local councils composed primarily of well-meaning amateurs. Give them little guidance, a vague sense of...

Members of the newly elected school council at South Loop Elementary School put their differences aside Wednesday in order to address a more urgent need-making sure that all the pupils...

Nominations for the local school council elections continued to climb Friday, with 5,647 declared candidates for 5,420 seats, school officials said. Meanwhile school officials met early Friday with a citywide...

Waste Management Inc. announced Friday that it has dropped a plan to build a medical waste incinerator in southwest suburban Stickney after village officials, faced with stiff opposition by residents,...

Eighteen supervisors of the Chicago Housing Authority sued their employer Thursday, asking the U.S. District Court to stop the agency`s efforts to fire or transfer them and to reinstate them...

Rev. Paul Hall, a prominent South Side minister convicted of sexually attacking a teenage boy in his care, was sentenced Thursday to 4 years in prison. Hall, 43, the founder...

In a document that provides the first concrete evidence of how much it will cost Cook County Hospital to take over the University of Illinois Hospital, the county hospital director...

Artwork estimated to be worth millions of dollars was turned into ash Saturday as fire destroyed a historic brick loft building, site of the largest redevelopment project to date in...

Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, in a major statement on politics and racial rhetoric in the mayoral primary campaign, declared Thursday that Chicago ''must dissipate the cloud of racial hatred and animosity...